Weekly podcast hosted by John Zerzan, an influential anarcho-primitivist, deep green, anti-civilisation activist and writer since the 1960s. He lives in northwest USA. The podcast is broadcast on the University of Oregon's radio station, KWVA and online via *
http://johnzerzan.net/radio/*. Each edition usually includes talk, guests, phone-in and a little music.
This edition is a studio discussion touching on various subjects.
- Learning from history
- US unions, Seattle Strike and 1999 protests. Unions tried to keep members away from anarchist activism.
4:00 appx
- New action strikes, reflecting on moments of confrontation
6:00 appx
- Clothing/fashion for after the apocalypse!
8:00 appx
- 'ASMR' (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response); relaxing 'brain tingle' sensation triggered by gentle, whispering videos. First mentioned in the previous episode this time from personal experience.
9:00 appx
- Superbowl: the nature of sport; popularity media of sport/entertainment industry is in decline
13:00 appx
- Noam Chomsky on moral depravity and electoral politics.
17:00 appx
- Despair, mass shootings ...
19:00 appx
- 'Becoming Animal' new film based on book by David Abram, about separation from the sensuous world
21:00 appx
- 2018 was 4th warmest year on record, 2019 will be warmest yet, heating is speeding up
25:00 appx
- Geo-engineering
26:00 appx
- Keystone oil pipeline
27:00 appx
- The goodness paradox, by Richard Wrangham
28:00 appx
- Self-lacing shoes !?
- 'Rent a friend' ... 1/3 of peple are isolated and lonely
- Douglas Rushkoff's, new book Team Human
- Action reports including the 'Yellow Vest' protests in France
- Allergic reactions on the increase
- 'Fauxtography' manipulation of digital images
52:00 appx
- Hope or despair; talking or not talking; nihilism; discussed with a caller, from
53:00 appx, to the end